Younes Bouhadjar
Senior Neuromorphic Researcher at Fraunhofer IIS
Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolYounes Bouhadjar is a Senior Neuromorphic Researcher with a decade of experience at the intersection of neuroscience, machine learning, and materials engineering, now leading neuromorphic computing work at Fraunhofer IIS. His PhD and postdoctoral work developed spiking neural network models for sequence learning and implemented them on memristive neuromorphic hardware, bridging theory to silicon. He combines strong computational modeling and hardware prototyping experience with a background in nanotechnology and physics from top European institutions (RWTH, EPFL, Grenoble INP). Notably, he contributes to open-source scientific tooling—improving clarity in the widely used NEST simulator examples—demonstrating attention to reproducibility and research communication. Younes has a track record of translating biological principles of working memory and replay into memory-augmented neural architectures and hardware-aware algorithms. Based in Erlangen, he focuses on making AI more efficient by borrowing mechanisms from the brain and materials-level innovations.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.-Ing., Materials Science and Engineering, Neuromorphic Computing, Dr.-Ing., Materials Science and Engineering, Neuromorphic Computing at RWTH Aachen UniversityMaster’s Degree, Nanotechnology for integrated systems, Master’s Degree, Nanotechnology for integrated systems at Politecnico di TorinoEngineer’s Degree, Physics and Electronics Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Physics and Electronics Engineering at Grenoble INP - PhelmaBachelor’s Degree, Science in Engineering., Bachelor’s Degree, Science in Engineering. at Université Paris 13Bachelor’s Degree, Science and Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Science and Technology at Preparatory classes in Science and TechnologyMaster’s Degree, Nanotechnology for integrated systems, Master’s Degree, Nanotechnology for integrated systems at EPFL
English, French, Arabic
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Github Skills (7)
nest-simulator10
nest10
documentation10
python9
toolkits8
tool-kit8
cpp5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nest/nest-simulator
Oct 2020 - May 2021
The NEST simulator
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:14 reviews, 12 commits, 4 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Younes primarily contributed to the project by improving the documentation of the `twoneurons.py` and `one_neuron.py` example scripts within the NEST simulator. Their commits demonstrate a focus on clarifying explanations, correcting inaccuracies, and improving the overall readability of the documentation. These changes included reformatting the code comments, adding or removing descriptions of the steps, and correcting grammar.
cppnest-simulatorpythonsimulationneurons
YounesBouhadjar/younesbouhadjar.github.io
Feb 2019 - Jun 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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